YORK MINSTER.
PINNACLE BLOWN OFF IN GALE. (CKIT&D rESS3 ASSOCIATION —ST ELECTRIC TELEGiATH—COPYBIGHT.) (Received January 3rd, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. During a gale which reached a velocity of 91 .miles an hour at Liverpool, 80 at Glasgow, and 7J at Southport, a pinnacle was blown off the west iront of York Minster, loewt of. masonry crashing 280 feet to the ground. [York Minster is, in several respects, the finest and most remarkable of all English churches. It measures 524ift by 250 ft, with a central tower 216 ft high and the western towers each 202 ft. On the site of King Edwin's wooden church "a more noble basilica" (according to Bede) was soon to be built, to be replaced by another in the eleventh century, which was afterwards repeatedly rebuilt or enlarged. A striking and beautiful feature is the west front witß vhe great window above the door. Not till 1472 was York Minster completed as it now stands.]
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19818, 4 January 1930, Page 13
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